Overthrow My Oneness is a seductive blend of unexpected turns and suggestive closures that captures the tenuous balance between pessimism and optimism that so many of us have recently experienced. The original motivation for this project was to write rock songs that could be performed live – ironic, perhaps, given the pandemic. Trapper maintains an appealing mid-tempo vibe throughout, blending rock, funk, & jazz over unusual timings that feel approachable and natural. Engaging use of...
Topics: rock, progrock, indie
Soft Craters is built around strong rock themes scattered with fusion, funk, and bold lyrical imagery all laid over a bed of captivating keyboard grooves. Trapper wrote these songs last fall while living on an artist residency in the Snæfellsnes Peninsula of western Iceland. This collection, Trapper’s 10th album, captures a glimpse into the stories and secrets that dwell among the glacier-fed moss-draped craters on these coastal lava beds. Natural insights and inspirations infused with the...
Topics: Rock, Progressive, Post-Rock, Alternative
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A trippy groove-filled post modern sideswipe. Everything about this collection bends and slides you towards a deeply frivolous seduction. Another dramatic stride on the path towards wherever it is Trapper is ultimately heading. Prog rock backbeat, jazz-marked fusionality, heartfelt acid folk ballads, drippy layered vocals, trancy electronic flirtations, hapless lyricality, compulsive rhythms, acoustic air, emotional honesty, serious boundary issues. Reviews: "Intergalactic Funk laced with...
Topics: Rock, Alternative, Progressive Rock
A highly credible and largely coherent funky progrock excursion that wanders the line between soothing reassurance and challenging regret. Absorbing vocals, creative song structure, distinctive elements of indie fusion, compelling down-temp grooves. There’s a consistent thread of angst and apprehension balanced against hope and renewal, all vaguely predicated on the tension between individual independence and the desire to be accepted. But don’t let that get in your way – these quirky...
Topics: Rock, Progressive Rock, ProgRock
“Tragically Bold” “Lyrically Unstuck” “Overly Cumbered” “Unjustifiably Confident”
Topics: Rock, Alternative, Progressive Rock
Nervous guitar leads, grooveful instrumentals, searing synths, tasty bass grooves, unpredictable song structure, questionable lyrics, unyielding percussion, notable strummability, calming pianos, and disturbing vocals. Based in emotion, not intellect; there is a natural sense of honesty to these songs.
Topics: Rock, Alternative, Progressive Rock
The “Gardens Of Tone” album was written and recorded in the small town of Bilpin, New South Wales, Australia. Bilpin is situated in the Greater Blue Mountains UNESCO World Heritage Area, an amazing landscape of unique flora, fauna, and land formations. All songs on this album are inspired by and, in some cases, directly about this dramatic landscape and the people I met there. Reflective wistful downtempo rock fusion; laced with dreamy synths, jazz-influenced keyboards, and ethereal...
Topics: Rock, Alternative, Downtempo
The “Not Here But Now” album was written and recorded in the small north Iceland town of Ólafsfjör ð ur during February 2017. This collection accurately captures my awareness and temperament -- moody downtempo rock grooves with ethereal synths, jazz-influenced rhythms, wistful piano themes, and short quirky vocal parts. Fleeting intuitive performances over brooding deliberate patterns that wander freely but find their way home. Written & Recorded in Ólafsfjör ð ur, Iceland....
Topics: Rock, Alternative, Progressive Rock
Original outdoor music from Agnes On Fire , a collection of random critters who periodically cross paths in the Stehekin Valley, North Cascades, WA. Written & produced by Trapper Robbins Musicians: Aaron Cleveland, Elmo Fury, Hannah Gietl, Pat Gietl, Shelby Huff, Erik Maakestad, Trapper Robbins, Steve Saunders, Bren Starcher, Molly Starcher, Dutch Story
Topics: Rock, Blue Grass
Trapper brings his emotional heartfelt blend of intent, intellect, and instinct to the forefront in this diverse and unexpected collection of low-key layered rhythmic rock keepsakes. The “Solar Kiss ” project began near the Arctic Circle in the coastal twilight of northern Iceland and ended in the cold windswept snows of Wyoming’s Medicine Bow Mountains. Among these extremes emerge broad insights and deep emotions that Trapper expresses through his hypnotic off-center timings,...
Topics: rock, progrock, ambient prog, indie
